The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s17.t2.13

c5.s17.t2.13

THIS is a bushy shrub common in most parts of India and used in making fences. The leaves and roots of this plant are considered expectorant and antispasmodic and are much used in a variety of forms in cough, consumption, catarrhal fever and asthma. This medicine was considered so serviceable in phthisis that it was said no man suffering from this disease need despair as long as the *vásaka* plant exists.